Last rites

my breath rattled the pigeons went quiet

doors come to be great friends with the dead

I eat my afterself and depart into story

the coroner will be called to examine my joy

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 21 January 1668.

Dave Bonta

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